Sentences with phrase «weapons tests on»

It's hard to understand a culture that encourages violence against women, violence against their neighbours, violence and hatred against other nations, suicide bombings, stoning people to death, so called «honor killings», chemical and biological weapons testing on prisoners, and a long list of other «not so nice» practices.

Not exact matches

The sanctions are the latest against third - country companies and individuals in an effort to exert greater economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime, which has conducted regular missile and nuclear tests in defiance of United Nations resolutions and has developed weapons that may be capable of hitting the continental U.S.

In addition to firing at least 23 missiles in 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in September.

Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

Moon, a liberal who has been forced into a more hawkish stance by a stream of North Korean weapons tests, has repeatedly declared that there can be no U.S. attack on the North without Seoul's approval, but many here worry that Washington may act without South Korean input.

Nor have intelligence agencies documented tests of a similar weapon on some other target, or signs that Russia might have moved agents into Cuba to carry out such an operation.

Another ACCS report noted the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has failed to sufficiently test its ability to thwart cyber attacks on its weapons systems.

But the Florida legislature, which has long been seen as a laboratory for gun - rights legislation that is tested elsewhere in the country, rejected a ban on assault weapons after Parkland.

Their vision is being put to the test by the present Constitution Revision Commission, which will dishonor itself if it does not act on the assault weapon crisis.

It seems that half the countries on the planet are involved in guerrilla conflict, drug smuggling, nuclear weapons testing, and counterfeiting Disney DVDs.

Is there any limit to the things we may make and alter (heart transplants, artificial insemination, «test - tube babies,» nuclear weapons — more than enough to destroy all forms of life on earth!)?

«Following the introduction of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the test of a responsible nuclear weapons power will be its commitment to present concrete plans for progressing towards a world without nuclear weapons.»

For example, building a «backpack» nuclear weapon still requires an industrial infrastructure and leaves a logistics trail; plus anyone wanting to rely on such a device would probably want to test it and there are systems in place to identify the seismic signatures of nuclear detonations.

Current news states that North Korea have been ignoring UN resolutions on nuclear development, and have gone ahead with development and testing of nuclear weapons.

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong - un, has told South Korean envoys he is willing to negotiate with the United States on abandoning his country's nuclear weapons, and also said he would suspend all nuclear and missile tests while such talks were underway.

When he first announced that he had purchased the weapons last year, he made a pledge on LBC radio that he would stand as a test dummy before they were used on the public.

The stolen weapon was later recovered on a suspect in a double homicide; tests confirmed the weapon was not used in the commission of that crime.»

The Trump administration threatened new sanctions on North Korea after the reclusive government shattered 21/2 months of relative quiet with its most powerful weapon test yet, an intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could reach Washington and the entire U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

Despite opposition from its left wing the Labour party supported British nuclear weapons but opposed tests, and Labour Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell and shadow foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan agreed with Sandys on the importance of reducing dependence on the American deterrent.

The reliability of the technology remains «a bit tenuous,» Tucker said, adding that much more research, development and testing would be needed before cops could trust the weapons with lives on the line.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

In asserting that the explosions on 11 and 13 May provide «enough data» to continue the country's nuclear weapons program without further testing, the two government experts hope to free up the hands of politicians who want India to join the 149 countries that have agreed to the ban.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Science historian Michael D. Gordin recounts the events leading up to August 29, 1949, when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in the deserts of Kazakhstan — a test explosion that brought the U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons to a close.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

But I was afraid of governments launching gigaton nuclear weapons on spacecraft, as was a Russian colleague who had participated in the Soviet weapons program and had some wonderful stories about nuclear tests that went wrong.

Those two also became the last nuclear tests the United States conducted before President George H. W. Bush signed a law imposing a moratorium on all nuclear weapons testing, on 2 October 1992.

Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Bulletin member and head of Quaid - i - Azam University's physics department in Pakistan, called for a moratorium on the development of materials that go into nuclear weapons and on testing nuclear weapons.

Livermore official Bruce Goodwin said that the design his team submitted had a solid «test pedigree» as it was based on a previously tested weapon that was never deployed; Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which was the loser in the competition between the two schemes, chose to use a design that hadn't been tested.

Between 1945 and 1962 the U.S. conducted more than 200 atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and captured the detonations on film.

Cesium - 137, on the other hand, is also present from nuclear weapons tests and discharge from nuclear power plants.

LLNL nuclear weapon physicist Gregg Spriggs is leading a team of film experts, code developers and interns on a mission to hunt down, scan and reanalyze what they estimate to be 10,000 films of the 210 atmospheric tests conducted by the U.S. between 1945 and 1962.

Aside from waffling a bit on questions about the wisdom of nuclear - weapons testing and whether climate change represents a global crisis, Perry generally said the right things, says Michael Lubell, a physicist at the City College of New York.

South Korea's main spy agency told politicians in a closed - door briefing after the test that it does not think Pyongyang currently has the ability to develop miniaturised nuclear weapons which can be mounted on ballistic missiles, but intelligence officials expressed worries that the North's efforts to do so are progressing quicker than previously thought, said Kim Byungkee, of the opposition Minjoo Party.

In October 2014 the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle — 3 returned from a mission where some analysts believe it was testing technologies for hypersonic missiles — weapons capable of hitting any target on Earth within an hour — and, possibly, techniques for repairing or disabling satellites.

That included a calibration test on the track last December using a B61 trainer, a shell the same weight as a real weapon, to assess plans for the actual test, Petti said.

Rather, it is based on a formerly tested weapon that includes a host of new surrounding features.

Although the Airborne Laser (ABL) was fired from a stationary plane at a target on the ground just a few metres away, the test marked a milestone for the weapon, developed by aerospace firms Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

A complete ban on nuclear testing is a major part of the US policy to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code - named «Little Boy» detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code - named «Fat Man» on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.

For several years now the weapons labs in the US have been preparing for a ban on nuclear testing.

But Richard Garwin, a retired IBM physicist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who has long been a technical adviser on nuclear weapons and stockpile surveillance to the Defense Department and the NNSA, said the government had not been transparent enough about the long lapse in testing and production.

For more clear - cut evidence that snails use insulin as a weapon, Joanna Gajewiak, a research assistant professor at the university, came up with a fast way to synthesize enough of the insulin to directly test its effects on fish.

The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.

On Sunday, North Korea detonated what they claimed to be a hydrogen bomb and the weapon test has prompted serious concern from the.

A new weapon, vehicle, and attachments are all now available on the Steam test server along with weapon balance changes in Update # 12.

The patch focuses mostly on weapon balance, tweaking nearly every pointy object in the game in response to testing and player feedback.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.

We are in the midst of a war on public education, and high - stakes, standardized tests are the enemies» weapon of choice.

However, after blowback from teacher union leaders and suburban parents aiming the weapon of test refusal squarely at Cuomo's political aspirations, the Governor folded and declared a four - year moratorium on that linkage.